Elliott, James R.2019-10-012019-10-011995Elliott, James R.. "Cycles Within the System: Metropolitanization and Internal Migration in the U.S., 1965-1990." (1995) <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/107427">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/107427</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/107427CDE Working Paper No. 95-21This paper uses a typology of local metropolitan development to examine population redistribution trends in the U.S. over the past three decades. Theories of systemic maturation and urban life-cycles are discussed. Subsequent analysis of population and inter-county migration data reveals that Deconcentration has become an increasingly common subprocess of local metropolitanization but that this subprocess cannot be adequately explained by a “life-cycle” model of metropolitan development. More importantly, results indicate that metro-based migration varies significantly with local patterns of metropolitanization. The nature of this variation implies that declining metro areas tend to redistribute migrants to relatively distant, nonmetro territory in a manner consistent with extended processes of decentralization.engWorking paperMetropolization-and-Internal-Migration